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Vice-President
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Bosch

Prof. Dr Thomas Carl Bosch was born in Augsburg in 1955. He studied Biology at the University of Munich and Swansea University College in the UK from 1976 to 1983. In 1983 he received his degree in Biology at the University of Munich. Bosch earned his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1986. From 1986 to 1988, Bosch held a postdoctoral position at the Developmental Biology Center, University of California, Irvine, USA; from 1988 to 1993 he was an academic collaborator at the Zoological Institute of the University of Munich.

Bosch qualified as a lecturer of Zoology in 1993 at the University of Munich. After a position as a senior research associate (C2) at the Zoological Institute of the University of Munich from 1993 to 1997, he was appointed to a C3-professorship for Systematic Zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in 1997. Bosch has been Professor of General Zoology at Kiel University since 2000. Bosch was appointed the third Vice-President on 28 April 2010. He is responsible for research and Kiel University's international relations.